After hours of troubleshooting, I downloaded the AirPort software, which was not on the clamshell, and this fixed the problem. This is not mentioned anywhere in the Zydas documentation.
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I recently purchased (on eBay) an "802.11G WiFi USB 2.0 Dongle 5 dBi Antenna 4 Mac PSP NDS," to use with a G3 clamshell iBook running 10.3.9. This dongle comes with the Zydas 1211 driver and software. I followed the directions carefully, but after installation, the Network System Preferences panel did not recognize the driver or the device.
After hours of troubleshooting, I downloaded the AirPort software, which was not on the clamshell, and this fixed the problem. This is not mentioned anywhere in the Zydas documentation.
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How to use a Zydas wireless device on a Mac
I have one of those too. Nice to see I'm not the only one putting vintage hardware to good use.
How to use a Zydas wireless device on a Mac
I'm posting from a clamshell iBook using a zydas (1211b) usb dongle too... but I'm using the ZyDas WLan driver, which sucks on a clamshell because the options screen doesn't fit on a 800x600 screen! Clunky slightly buggy software in general, that I'd like to get rid of, so thanks for the Airport tip, I'm going to try that. If you want to try out the zydas native driver, www.zydas.com.tw is dead, Atheros bought them and I can't find any working links, I guess a more involved search is necessary to find alternative drivers.
How to use a Zydas wireless device on a Mac
Information on Zydas drivers for OS X (ppc and intel versions!) is located on my OS X wireless driver wiki:
http://www.seattlewireless.net/MacOS Please help me update and maintain the wiki! Here is another relevant link: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=3387156
How to use a Zydas wireless device on a Mac
Two different ZyDAS ZD1211 drivers for OS X are available here:
ftp://ftp.zyxeltech.de/ZyDAS/ZD1211_USB/Macintosh/ For the USB WLAN sticks using the Ralink chipset (such as the Asus WL-176g and the Gigabyte GN-WBKG) Mac OS X drivers can be found directly at RalinkTech: http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Macintosh.html Walter.
Zydas 1211b working on osx 10.4.10
Just Installed Zydas 1211B on OS X 10.4.10-
Had to enable root login, then login as root, then installed the 4.5.7.0 Version of the Driver. Then Restart, disable root login, and enjoy your usb wifi. I downloaded the driver from: ftp://ftp.zyxeltech.de/ZyDAS/ZD1211_USB/Macintosh/ To enable or disable root login see: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106290
How to use a Zydas wireless device on a Mac
Well I bought a ZyDAS stick for my AirPort equipped g-3 clamshell, both recently purchased off Ebay. The airport card works fine, but I am attempting to "dongle" the unit with a 20" satellite dish to enable the recipient to tag along onto weak neighborhood WiFi signal. (Its for a 72 yr senior citizen on extremely limited budget, & we will seek permission if I can identify the owner.)
How to use a Zydas wireless device on a Mac
I've used a Belkin F5D7050 v4 with my Pismo Powerbook running MacOS X 10.4.11 for a number of months now, and had occasional kernel panics, but nothing really serious.
Well, recently I was (hide your eyes) cooking up a Hackint0sh, and discovered someone had found a newer version of the ZyDas 1211B drivers and posted the info to a forum which I will leave unnamed to protect the innocent. The best thing is that said driver works with Leopard, Tiger, and is Universal Binary! It can be found at http://safecom.cn/code/support/DMF.aspx?pid=321# and is the item marked Version-4 for 10.4.8 Though it isn't named so up front, after the generically titled Zip file unzips, you're left with ZDA211MacUSB_install_4_5_9_0.dmg and I can vouch for its stability on both my 10.4.11-powered Pismo, as well as the aforementioned goodie of dubious legality. Have fun!
How to use a Zydas wireless device on a Mac
I picked up the updated driver from softpedia. which is linked to the German site one.
How to use a Zydas wireless device on a Mac
I got a Zydas 1215 USB 2.0 WLAN dongle working in Snow Leopard. I got the Wi-Fire installer from http://www.wifire.com and installed it (it installs drivers for the 1211 and the 1211Bmodel (aka 1215). You must use the supplied WiFire app to actually connect. ---
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